Countries
Myanmar
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Myanmar
Bhutan
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
India
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
India
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Thai Language
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Pali Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3395
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3330
9
60
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Scripts
Tangut
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Tsip maza
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Laya
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Lunana
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
440,000.00700.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Intha
Adap
Where They Speak
Burma
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
90,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
54
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
43.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.50 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
33.00 million0.17 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
birman
dzongkha
German Name
Birmanisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[bəmɛ̀]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Bamar people
Ngalop people
Origin
1113 AD
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Dzongkha
Language Position
4331
1
120
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Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
my
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mya
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
bur
dzo
ISO 639 3
mya
dzo
ISO 639 6
mya
dzo
Glottocode
sout3159
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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